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Thank you, Nia! Glad you like these….the first one was taken yesterday, as I was strolling around a local garden – I always find something different to photograph there, and I loved the pattern of the ivy on the wall 😀

This old machine was in Paddock Bunker, the alternative Cabinet War Room bunker back-up for Churchill’s cabinet located in Dollis Hill – Wikipedia has a short article here.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddock_(war_rooms)
I believe this comprised part of the generator equipment.

Your leitmotif – and mine not quite so gloriously – is haunting me. Last night, a chapter called “Abandon” in Rebecca Solnit’s “A field guide to getting lost”.

Your photos express the theme beautifully and in two modes. Colour and arrangement are both perfect, as is the decrepit bean-shaped gleam on the circles in the second one. What an archive of decrepitude you must have.

So what is your leitmotif, Jo? That book sounds interesting, I must search it out.
As to your question, I have a small photographic archive of decrepitude…would that it was larger. I also have a very small archive of mental images, from before I had a camera… And a list of many, many missed opportunities, places never seen.